So what happened to the good old days when cartoons had some edge and maturity?

So what happened to the good old days when cartoons had some edge and maturity?
Are there any other cartoons in this day and age in which the main protagonists actually experience failure despite trying their hardest, or even lose to the villain?
>hard mode: not made before 2014

Nothing Ever Happens Shirt $21.68

UFOs Are A Psyop Shirt $21.68

Nothing Ever Happens Shirt $21.68

  1. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    steven universe succumbed to ptsd from his life of being a child soldier. like they literally say it on screen. is that edgy enough?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >ptsd
      Pussy shit.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >steven israeliteniverse

        still a better show than any of the waifu shit you like

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Cope homosexual

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >steven israeliteniverse

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >say it
      Should have shown it. That's on the same level as retroactively saying a character got raped once and never doing anything with that. Just "oh no I'm sad"

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Are you stupid? He literally turns into a giant monster from the self loathing and almost destroys beach city, how much more shown do you want it?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        What anon here

        Are you stupid? He literally turns into a giant monster from the self loathing and almost destroys beach city, how much more shown do you want it?

        is trying to say is that they basically just shoved Stevens PTSD in like an asspull.

        Steven was always characterized as someone happy go lucky with his life. Even when he got scared or afraid of the dangerous situations, he would still try to do it as best.

        But then in SU future, after getting questioned by that one doctor about his past, he gets mentally ass blasted as if he had all his traumatic experiences in 20 minutes, and then proceeds to turn to a nutcase that belongs in Arkham.

        If the crewverse to cover the side effects of Stevens dangerous Adventures, they should have set it up beforehand in the main show before ass blasting it to us like the rest of SU future.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          doesn't help that sugar said she was inspired by a guy grabbing her arm at a bus and apparently traumatized her for life so now she believes she has PTSD

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Lastman prequel, Invincible, Primal... Don't bet on Cinemaphile cause astroturfer

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >ptsd
      that word has lost all meaning thanks to gays and women claiming that trivial shit gave them ptsd, if you are not a war veteran then you cant have ptsd in my eyes

  2. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Unicorn Wars was pretty brutal

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      it was also pretty shitty

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Where do I even watch it?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Buy the blu-ray homosexual, support small productions.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Not the Anon, but how in the frick am I supposed to buy it if they won't even release it in Australia. Looks interesting, but they're snubbing a sizeable audience.

  3. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Things got bit too real when the bad guys won two World Wars in row.

  4. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Legend of Korra. This made her the worst character in history according to the fine minds of Cinemaphile of course.

  5. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yes.

  6. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Spoilers

  7. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    bump

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      .

      just throw this thread out if you're required to do this shit op you homosexual

  8. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is this show real? because I can't find anything about it on google.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think it's made up. In fact I think the OP image, and this one are probably AI generated.
      Found this on imgur with the date August 27, and it's implied to be from this year, so yeah.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Anon's trying to force a meme for his gay youtube essay

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        [...]
        I have the movie, thoughever.

        If you where to make a fake cartoon how would you make it feel legit? I feel you would need it make it foreign to explain why nobody else talked about it and even then it would be a long game since you first would need to put it in some list, put some screenshots here and there and finally wait a couple of years to reveal the meat of the hoax.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          well first of all make it actually look legit and not like some 15 year old played around with photoshop filters for the first time ever. Not that you aren't one.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >If you where to make a fake cartoon how would you make it feel legit?
          You don't because it's a stupid waste of time.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            Where do you think we are?

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              I heard stories of someone just making up a bunch of Streetshark episodes back in the early internet. that sounds kind of fun to be honest. Take a show, fake some screenshots and say something fricked up happened.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Well of course if you create fake screencaps for some "unaired episode" of an already established property it's more likely to gain traction and interest

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                This. It's pretty easy to start rumors about older cartoons. Like how people thought there was a secret Kablaam episode that only aired once. Once the rumor took root, people would come up with their own explanations about why no records of it existed. It took the original creator stepping in to quash it.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I heard stories of someone just making up a bunch of Streetshark episodes back in the early internet
                It's true, I can vouch for it. It was on a site called tvtomes (long time gone), kind of a wiki-ish imdb for tv shows.
                I was probably one of ten Street Sharks fans that existed on the internet on those days, so years after watching the show, imagine my surprise when, while looking for episodes available, the show episode summaries were all fake (two seasons + movie, all fake). I knew they were fake because it talked about the "movie finale", where Killamari was introduced.

                But I was also young, so for a time I actually thought it could be a reboot of some sort (way before reboots were even a thing). The funniest part of all that... if memories serves, the summaries were far more entertaining than the actual show was, kek.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          there needs to be footage of it

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Well, first of all, don't try and make it a lost Easter European cartoon. You remember all those old action cartoons from Eastern Europe? No? Because they didn't fricking exist? Exactly. Calling it "Boto Sztoj" is a huge red flag that its fake and gay.

          What you want to do is make it something unproduced. Like only test footage and concept art got made for it. Say the main artist fricked a kid or something and that's the reason production stopped cold and got memory holed.

          Does Mighty Max count?
          Granted, Max did pulled a time travel at the end, but only after the main villain killed his allies and successfully claimed the hat.
          Edit: Can't upload img of villain with hat.

          The villain won but the story didn't ended

          I personally wouldn't count it because the ending was very hopeful and implied that Max would use his newfound knowledge to make everything work out. It was essentially a good ending with more steps.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        wtf is the spelling? i can't tell if it says boLo or boTo and sTozj or szLoj

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        [...]
        I have the movie, thoughever.

        If this were real, Cinemaphile would still be talking about it to this day. You underestimate our autism. There is no animation on the face of the planet we will not unearth or forget to watch.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          I don't know, we can be pretty ignorant when it comes to foreign animation.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            A lot of the recs on Cinemaphile's must watch list are foreign.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Sure, but I do think most guys here don't have very indepth stuff of comics.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Cinemaphile doesn't read comics, foreign or domestic.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            It’s just that foreign films can often be low budget. It doesn’t have that American or Japanese high budget polish to it. I’m well aware of euro cartoons.

            Cinemaphile doesn't read comics, foreign or domestic.

            This is true and I will not apologize. I wish all American comics in the past decade were lost media.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      it was on 123movies.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think it's made up. In fact I think the OP image, and this one are probably AI generated.
      Found this on imgur with the date August 27, and it's implied to be from this year, so yeah.

      I have the movie, thoughever.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        This looks like yet another generated image. Put the movie on catbox if it's really real.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        hot DAMN I wish this was real, but no cartoon on Earth looked like this in 1990 unfortunately

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        1:1 DALL-E aspect ratio
        Nice try but a 90's movie would be 4:3

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          [...]
          [...]
          This art looks too modern, i'm pretty sure you're making an ARG. Post the link to a youtube or a gif to prove it's not fake. Who's the protag. Before I google it, prove you're not an ARG.

          Ah even worse. AI art. That middle character with no head certainly didnt look normal, even for the 80's. It's impossible for a cartoon from the 90s to have that level of detail that noone's heard about.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think it's made up. In fact I think the OP image, and this one are probably AI generated.
        Found this on imgur with the date August 27, and it's implied to be from this year, so yeah.

        https://i.imgur.com/UewbeJ6.png

        So what happened to the good old days when cartoons had some edge and maturity?
        Are there any other cartoons in this day and age in which the main protagonists actually experience failure despite trying their hardest, or even lose to the villain?
        >hard mode: not made before 2014

        This art looks too modern, i'm pretty sure you're making an ARG. Post the link to a youtube or a gif to prove it's not fake. Who's the protag. Before I google it, prove you're not an ARG.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah that's definitely AI,

        https://i.imgur.com/UewbeJ6.png

        So what happened to the good old days when cartoons had some edge and maturity?
        Are there any other cartoons in this day and age in which the main protagonists actually experience failure despite trying their hardest, or even lose to the villain?
        >hard mode: not made before 2014

        got me. Honestly just avoid women if you're going to do an AI hoax because AI's well seems pretty poisoned in regards to women.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Could tell this was AI generated just because of the metal engravings

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      both images you google are AI generated

  9. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Centar world has the main villain get killed off in cold blood after they realize their mistake

  10. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    .

  11. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >edge and maturity

    lol move the frick on, inagine complaining abojt cartoons in your big ass age

  12. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Zoomers don't like that.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      le zoomer i am boomer

  13. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Fake news cartoon does not exist.

  14. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    In the last episode of Vic the Viking they leave to fight in a war and never return, that's fricked up

  15. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Don't all heroes experience failures or set backs? If you don't think so you are probably operating with a very limited definition of failure or set back.

  16. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >So what happened to the good old days when cartoons had some edge and maturity?

    Boomers refusing to get with the times drafted laws that said animation can only be made for kids.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      What's are you talking about? I can't even figure out what time period you are talking about? We have had boomer politicians drafting laws for like 40 years. Or maybe you didn't mean the politicians but something else. Than again half the time when people say boomer they don't mean baby boomer or they do but they cant place it correctly.

  17. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >cartoons
    >edge and maturity
    Cartoons are for kids, anon

  18. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    The real answer is it either dosen't sell overseas or if we're talking cool or kickass visuals it can be too expensive to produce. That's why everything has been reduced to safe toothless cheap shit. Case and point pic related being the last great cartoon on CN. It's not about making good cartoons anymore.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I liked that show. But felt more like an Adult Swim forced to be PG.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Robotomy on AS
        Part of me kinda disagrees because there is the possibility it would have been too crude aswell. Sometimes when a show is forced to restrain itself it provides better entertainment, ya know? Idk this thought could be biased cuz I loved this show as a kid and I wouldn't have known about it if it was pushed to AS.
        Robotomys only sin in my eyes was its budget. Still struggle to belive it's was also shot down from how heavy and hard it went with its darker themes. I guess it was just above what CN was willing to tolerate at the time given MAD and Regular show at the time had similar crudeness. I think it taught Christy Karacus a good lesson. While I hate how we'll never get robotomy again it's crude spirit thankfully lives on in super jail and ball masters.

  19. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Well, the villain actually achieves his grand evil plan in Wakfu's first season, it's just that it didn't turn out how he hoped at all.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      i'm so mad i got that twist spoiled, it was briliant

  20. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    If foreign animation counts, then Attack on Titan ends with the MC massacring 80% of the human population to avoid his people from being slaughtered only for the apocalypse to happen a few generations anyway and the entire world getting reset back to the stone age.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >heard the author was gonna try to fix the ending
      >it got somehow WORSE

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        The ending is pretty good, especially for a shonen. I only see eren self-inserters seething over it.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Guess you don't have a lot of experience with shonen.
          I remember reading the "final chapter" and being annoyed about how many villains got away with everything, for one.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            If you think the story had heroes and villains, then you got filtered hard.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              The author just lacks something of a moral compass, I guess.

  21. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why do people keep trying to act like cartoons were always for adults? It was for general audiences, as in, it had no age restrictions at first and then it later became for kids when cinama was considered more high art for adult tastes and anything not live action was better fit for kid to make more profit pandering to them.

    I'm not going to act like adults don't like cartoons, but I'm going to tell you straight up, liking booba mc coomer designs the show isn't going to stop the notion animated media isn't a adult medium unless it's outright porn because, no shit. As an adult I'm more than happy watching early era Spongebob or South Park knowing damn well it's not some statement for validating my tastes as a adult, I'm just going to like it because it's good content and be happy with that. This site's infatuation to validate and propagate agendas with shitty narratives of what should be made for adults is rally, really fricking stupid and has been ever since Trump got in office.

  22. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >boto_sztoj
    >0 results on e621

    But the goat must be lewded!

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      is he a top or bottom?

  23. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Boto Sztoj
    is that some fake Russian or does actually mean something?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      it means ass and tiddies

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >ass and tiddies

  24. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    this isn't a real movie

  25. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    AI is becoming more dangerous each day, I fooled a few anons with this

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      99% of the content online is fake news, literally nothing will change.

  26. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Otto is a Rorschachgay
    Kek!

  27. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Next time don't make your ebin creepypasta cartoon have a name as gay and moronic as Boto Sztoj.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      ok, randall

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *